News Posts

Beer and Metal: a perfect match now combined into a metalfest baptized “Das Oktober Metalfest”!

Saxon will be coming to Alcatraz 2019, with their “40th Anniversary Castles and Eagles” show! Also, 7 more bands have just been added to the lineup!

After a quite strong month with many releases by big names, it seems like February is more dedicated to the underground!

Follow us live at one of the up-and-coming metal and hard rock festivals in Belgium! Prisoners and swamp people unite to rock!

Photo Reports

Pictures of the first day of Alcatraz 2024, with on the Prison Stage explosive shows from Dyscordia, Orden Ogan, Beast In Black, Feuerschwanz, Channel Zero, Saxon and Amon Amarth!

Album Reviews

The British heavy metal juggernaut Saxon deliver an outstanding performance on the newest album “Hell, Fire and Damnation”. Musically, the veterans embrace their classic NWOBHM roots and show great ability to write mid-crushing songs. Out tomorrow, January 19th via Silver Lining Music!

Thunderbolt celebrates their 40th anniversary and their 22nd album.

Lists

While we are still regularly looking back at what 2023 brought us, we of course also need to look forward. So here is the first edition of our 2024 series of articles where we bring the editorial team’s most anticipated releases with Escuela Grind, Green Day, The Empire Strikes, Saxon, Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, Static-X, The Gems, Lucifer, Manticora and Hiraes in January!

12 more releases of March 2021 we have been looking forward to for a while! Check it out!

Festival Reports

Report of our 4th and last day at the legendary Wacken festival with massive shows of bands like Saxon and Parkway Drive!

Time to kick off day one of the 12th edition of the coziest metal festival ever, Alcatraz. Who has never been there doesn’t know what he is missing, great vibe, not too much side animation, a party bar El Presidio and some Alcatraz side characters and they added this year a third stage, La Morgue, with […]

Once again a great party with all our fellow inmates at Alcatraz Festival 2017!

Previews

We are looking forward to Wacken Open Air 2019! Will there be rain or shine?

Gig Reports

The first official tribute to Wizz Wizzard at the same venue as Wizzfest. Find out here how that turned out.

The first official tribute to Wizz Wizzard at the same venue as Wizzfest. Find out here how that turned out.